We all have souls of different ages

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.